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Stop Telling Californians to Leave
How and when to flee fires and floods is a very personal decision.
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Reclaiming Your Attention
Internal Exile in the T2 Age
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The Rolexy, Spray-Tanned Lynch Mob
The new MAGA aesthetic smells like barfed-up rosé and burnt Cybertruck
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Emergencies, Real and Fictional
Don't fall for fake emergencies. When you actually catch on fire, you'll know why.
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The Inauguration Counter-Programming Event
Featuring Moira Donegan, Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen
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Millionaires of the World, Unite!
A new rebel baronage must rise up against the oligarchs.
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First They Come for the Oysters
Episode 4 of What Rough Beast is here!
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41:52
LIVE at 11 a.m. TODAY: Hang out with us!
We’re turning our backs on the inauguration and our fronts on what can be saved from THE RUBBLE.
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White Families in Peril
I wrote for POLITICO about modern political strife at the Gettysburg reenactment.
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Rough Beast of the Day
Is RedNote what is slouching toward America to be born?
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The Empire of Ozempic
A piece for @WIRED about Novo Nordisk.
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It's Not Disinformation; It's Fiction
Bunking it, debunking it, and rebunking it. That's no way to treat the internet.
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